MAHONING COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: DONNELL, Lester F. (published 1925)
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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 190
LESTER F. DONNELL, treasurer and assistant manager of the B.P.
Higby Company, which has in the City of Youngstown the authorized agency
for the sale of the Ford automobiles, was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, on the
28th of May, 1892, and is a son of Edgar and Rose (Dickhover) Donnell, the
father having died in the following year, 1893. The mother still resides in
Omaha, Nebraska.
In the public schools of Omaha Lester Fred Donnell continued his
studies until he had profited measurably by the advantages of the high
school, which he left before graduation. At the age of fifteen years he
took the position of office boy with the Nebraska Telephone Company, and
later he became bookkeeper and billing clerk for the Paxton & Gallagher
Company, one of the leading business concerns of Omaha. After remaining
with this company nearly five years he took the position of bookkeeper in
the offices of the Ford Motor Company branch agency at Omaha and his
services were in time simplified to include his interposition as cashier,
road representative and auditor of this branch agency. He finally was
called to the home office of the Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, and
after one year of effective service as traveling auditor he became
assistant manager of the Gordon Square Automobile Company, Ford dealers at
Cleveland, Ohio. Seven months later he became supervising traveling auditor
for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, and after retaining this position
two years, he finally formed his present important alliance, which has
involved his specialty constructive administration as treasurer and
assistant manger of B.P. Higby company.
Mr. Donnell is known as a wide-awake and progressive young business
man, and is an active member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and the
Exchange Club and also of the Mahoning Valley Country Club. In politics he
classifies himself an independent republican, and he is a member of the
Christian Science Church. In Detroit, Michigan, he retains his affiliation
with the Blue Lodge and Chapter of York Rite Masonry, and at Youngstown he
is a member of the Council of Royal and Select Masters and the Commandery
of Knights Templars.